Where to buy the nVidia Shield TV in Australia

Update: Nvidia Shield TV is finally officially coming to Australia in July for A$249.00 which is great timing as Amazon US starts to redirect all traffic to their Australian store.

The 2017 refresh of the nVidia shield is possibly the best cord cutting device available on the market today with access to the best streaming services including Netflix 4k and Amazon Prime Video. On top of this, The Shield is also right at home with local media via the likes of Kodi and the fork SPMC – an Android specific arm of Kodi made just for the Shield.

So what is it exactly? The Shield is an Android TV device running Android 7.0 (Nougat) and is 4k HDR capable. Android TV is easily one of the best TV Gui’s available and apps like Netflix and Amazon prime take slick advantage of this 10 foot interface over the standard mobile versions of these apps.

Once the domain of the enthusiast Home Theater PC crowd (HTPC), the Shield offers the best of both worlds, giving the user access to a wide range of easy to use official Android apps and also 3rd pary apps should you want to.

Kodi for instance, gives the user many possibilities and is a full fledged HTPC experience. I used to build PC boxes to do exactly what this little beauty does out of the box. If you have a media server or a live TV capture card, Kodi can play it. I currently use TVHeadend using an old PS3 TV USB dongle and everything just works flawlessly.

As to where to find the Shield in Oz, Unfortunately for us Aussies, Nvidia do not have a local distributor for their own products in Australia which makes finding and purchasing this device damn difficult.

So far Amazon appears to be the best place to grab both the standard and Pro versions of the Nvidia Shield. At US$169 for the 16gb Shield, this works out to be just over AU$200 at the time of publishing, add AU$21.60 for shipping and the whole thing can be had for under AU$300 dollars. You get the Remote and controller with both versions.

Click here to be taken to the Amazon Page. Amazon US is now no longer available in Australia.

Nvidia Shield Alternatives?

As for alternatives to the Shield there are a few real Android TV devices on the market but most lack the specs of the Shield. The closest I have found is the Xiaomi Mibox which I grabbed at the start of this year.

How does it stack up? Not to bad, especially given the price difference. Most of the time you can get it for under $100 Aussie dollars. The Mibox however lacks an Ethernet port so you will need a decent 5g home network connection. You can add an Ethernet usb dongle if required however.

My biggest grip with the Mibox is complete lack of refresh rate switching support in all apps including Kodi. Hopefully an Oreo update fixes this. The Mibox can be found here from Bang Good.

Hi. What TV do you recommend for this.. I guess it doesn’t need to be a smart TV.. Just something that has hdmi? Does it need to be 4k?or will fhd suffice? Also how does it compare to the likes of a smart TV like the tcl 55c2us? which has Android TV.. Chrome cast etc built in.

The biggest difference the Shield has over other Android TV devices is it supports auto refresh rate switching based on the content you are watching with native apps as well as Kodi.

This stops the annoying judder you can get with the cheaper boxes and the integrated TV Android chips – plus its a whole lot more powerful in the tech department.

The only real issue I have with Android TV and Kodi is that it struggles with de-interlacing TV streams or playing back interlaced content – if this is an issue, installing Libreelec on an old PC, Rasberry pi or a cheap s905 android box works well. You lose android functionality doing this but a box just for Libreelec will only cost 40 odd dollars.

“The Nvidia Shield TV will be available to purchase directly from the Shield website, computer resellers including PC Case Gear, Umart, Mwave, Centrecom, Scorptec, PLE Computers, JW Computers, Austin Computers and Computer Alliance, as well as select EB Games stores across the country.”

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